Charles Henry Mackintosh Quotes
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
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I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.
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I tried snowboarding before, and I suck at it.
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Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': There is world that should be, and the world that is. We live in one.Ebenezer: And must create the other, if it is ever to be.
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People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.
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I think the biggest mistake people make is not believing in themselves enough.
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Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."
